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Your November 21 Food Truck Schedule in Dallas

posted by George Lewis | November 21st, 2011 1:06pm | filed under Food Trucks, Yum is Dumb | 5 Comments »

This is shaping up to be a week of changes for the food trucks in Dallas and surrounding areas.  With rainy weather and the Thanksgiving holiday, most trucks have cut back on their schedules.  No one is serving breakfast, and only those Crazy Sisters are doing a late night service (Friday and Saturday).

A planned Black Friday Food Truck Park at The Shops at Park Lane has been canceled.  The food trucks, including Gandolfo’s, The Butcher’s Son, Nammi, Ruthie’s, and CupCakin are scrambling to find replacement locations for Black Friday.  Gandolfo’s Randy Wolken has threatened to go cruising for Black Friday lines on Thursday night.

Yum Yum food truck, a mostly-Fort Worth truck, told SideDish that they are hibernating for the Winter, but plan on re-emerging next Spring.

This week is liable to have lots of changes in the schedules.  Check Twitter, Facebook, and we’ll try to update this schedule as often as possible.  Jump for the schedule.

Update: Since the trucks were canceled from The Shops at Park Lane, they (Gandolfo’s, The Butcher’s Son, Nammi, Ruthie’s, and CupCakin) have all now arranged to be at Best Buy Addison for Black Friday.

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Fun or Foul: Alcohol Infused Whipped Cream

posted by Nancy Nichols | September 13th, 2011 1:55pm | filed under Buzz Killer!, cheap eats, Crazy Technology, dessert, Groceries, hostess gifts, I Went to College for This?, Junk Food, make mine a double, Newfangled condiments, Really?, sassy pants, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Slow News Day, Stupid terms for food, that's just wrong., Wasted Calorie, Yum is Dumb | 9 Comments »

I have no words.

UPPITY DATE: This link from a adult beverage wholesaler.

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Update on Trader Joe’s in Dallas

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 29th, 2011 10:10am | filed under Best Gay Hangout Restaurant Evah!, Breaking News, Bureaucratic red tape, cheap wine, ChirpyChirpy, Cult Cuisine, Groceries, Health Food, Hippie revolutions, Junk Food, Merguez Sausage Hunt, restaurant business news, sassy pants, Skinny bitches, Vegetarian/Vegan, Yum is Dumb | 20 Comments »

Grass does not grow beneath Teresa Gubbins' shoes.

Leave it to Teresa “Gumshoe” Gubbins to find a snitch in Trader Joe’s camp. Since the grocery chain announced they were planning locations in Dallas last May, they have been quite secretive about their locations. According to TG, you can rule out the former location on Greenville Ave. Her Deep Throat coughs up three possible locations: Walnut Hill and Central, Knox Ave., and Fort Worth. All of the details are here.

There was a time when Trader Joe’s was cool and funky and carried stuff you couldn’t find elsewhere, but I think the company is now running on a tired image. In the 70s,  Two Buck Chuck played a significant role in nursing wine drinkers off the Spanada bottle but the last TBC I sampled burned the enamel off my teeth. So, Trader Joe’s? Yes or no? Why?

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What Would Happen if Women Opened Restaurants With Male Body Parts as Themes

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 23rd, 2011 2:12pm | filed under Bad Names For Restaurants List, Best Gay Hangout Restaurant Evah!, breastaurants, Bring it!, Cheap trick for comments, ChirpyChirpy, cupcakes, Dog Friendly, Drinking, Goats!, Hole in the wall, hostess gifts, I Went to College for This?, I'm about to get fired, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Merguez Sausage Hunt, Murmur, Newfangled condiments, Not-so-skinny bitches, Nutjobs, Overprivileged chimps, Procrastination is part of the creative process, questionable judgment, Rants, restaurant business news, RudeDudes, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Slow News Day, Spicy foods, youthful spontaneous restaurants, Yum is Dumb | 53 Comments »

‘Scuse me while I saddle up my high horse. Am I the only woman who is concerned about the sudden surge in Breastaurants. I mean really 35 additional Twin Peaks? A bar opening in downtown called The Spread Eagle? Seriously boys? How would you like to take your daughter into one of the restaurant’s the gals in our office just conceptualized. We call them Peteries.

Hunky Town, Twin Pricks, Tooter’s, Pecker’s Hot Italian Sausage, Tube Steak Junction, Cake Balls to the Walls, Nuts and Butts, Quickies, Long Dong Silver, Tally Whacker’s, Love Mussels, Wee Willie’s, Twig and Berries.

Ladies, the floor is open.

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Special Report: First Customer at Dough Spends $62 for Lunch. Sends Pictures and Report

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 16th, 2011 1:42pm | filed under Bring it!, Celebrity Diners, ChirpyChirpy, Cult Cuisine, Openings/Closings, pizza, Restaurant News, SideDish Bump!, Special Report, Yum is Dumb | 21 Comments »

Jon Battle looking victorious outside of Dough on opening day.

Ladies and gentlemen, and I use those terms loosely, meet Jon Battle. He pestered me for months about the opening of Dough in Dallas. He’s a FANatic fan of their pizza. Well, the persistent Mr. Battle was the first official Dallas customer to enter Dough Pizzeria Napoletana when they opened this morning. He took a bunch of nice pictures which I have entered below the jump. Continue reading "Special Report: First Customer at Dough Spends $62 for Lunch. Sends Pictures and Report"

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Somebody Help This Poor Boy: Calzones in Dallas

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 16th, 2011 9:58am | filed under cheep, ChirpyChirpy, Cult Cuisine, Diets are stupid, Hippie revolutions, I Went to College for This?, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Nostalgia, pizza, Really?, Restaurant News, RudeDudes, Somebody Help, Yum is Dumb | 17 Comments »

This kinda sorta rude Disher sez:

Nancy, you all seem to write about Pizza, especially Jay Jerrier’s. Can you move your brain away from Cane Rosso and perhaps tell me about where to get a calzone?

I picked the wrong day to quit feeling chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep! (Warning, that song will attach to your brain forever.) And dude, you don’t need to capitalize the P in pizza. Calzone suggestions anyone? Jay?

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CBS to Host Most Valuable Blogger Competition

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 12th, 2011 12:01pm | filed under Bring it!, Cheap trick for comments, Food Fight!, Goats!, Keep Dallas Douchey!, Not-so-skinny bitches, Nutjobs, Overprivileged chimps, questionable judgment, Really?, Shamless self promotion, Steven Doyle, Twitter, Vote for me!, Yum is Dumb | 1 Comment »

I bet Steven Doyle doesn’t even know about this!! I just happened to stumble across it on the CBS site.  Looks like they are going to have a Most Valuable Blogger competition. I would never suggest who you should nominate but The Scott at Dallasfood.org has already made his sentiments known. This is going to be an interesting ride.

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Hot Link: The Tesar, The Truck, The Doyle and Camarena Tequila

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 10th, 2011 5:06pm | filed under Cult Cuisine, Drinking, Foodie People, Goats!, hostess gifts, I Went to College for This?, Merguez Sausage Hunt, Mexican Revolution, Nutjobs, Really?, Yum is Dumb | 1 Comment »

We sent a reporter to cover the most exciting news of the day but she mistakenly went to the wrong location. But Steven “Crave Me” Doyle was there. So was John Tesar. The Tesar is now making tacos for a taco truck supplied by Camarena Tequila. They float around the country and partner with local checks and hang out at local events. I don’t have any of the details like how can they give away free tequila but Doyle was there and he has the scoop of his career. Take it Craveman.

The Truck by The Tesar.

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John Tesar Milks a Cow and Wins $10,000 on Extreme Chef

posted by Nancy Nichols | August 5th, 2011 2:48pm | filed under Awards, Breakfast, Celebrity Chefs, Contests, Cooking, cookoff, Food Crime, Food Fight!, Food On TV, Hippie revolutions, I Went to College for This?, Nature Break, Nutjobs, questionable judgment, Really stupid joke, SideDish Bump!, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Slow News Day, What The Pho?, Yum is Dumb | 11 Comments »

Chef John Tesar sheds his doucheyness and becomes Extreme Chef winner. He can run 10 miles and cook in a corn field.

Last night John Tesar played a 53-year old geezer chef on a thrilling episode of Food Network’s Extreme Chef. He faced two younger chefs: Joe, a douchey New York dude who was once a private chef for Donald Trump; and Greg, a Portland chef who couldn’t cut it in medical school so he quit and went to the CIA.

Tesar was confident from the start. “I run 10 miles a day,” Tesar gloated. After that, he works all day and night. The competition took place on a 60-acre farm in Malibu Canyon and the premise had the chefs running all over the place to source ingredients.

HEARTY BREAKFAST was the segment. To obtain eggs, the chefs had to conquer a “crop-stical course” made of bales of hay formed into various tunnels and towers. Tesar, a virtual Jack LaLane, was first to the eggs (he picked duck!) and he won the first competition soundly with his ginger and duck egg French toast. (I think there was a fruit salad and some whiskey involved, but I can’t read my notes, and I refuse to rerun the show.) It only matters that when the Simon Cowell wannabe (and lookalike) host announced Tesar as the winner, Tesar took a modest Zen-like bow. Tesar is now the master of “the unconventional use of an egg.”

No, it’s not over. There are still 45 minutes left in the show. Here we go.

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Let’s Discuss: Is Yelp Deleting Customer Comments to Sell Ads?

posted by Nancy Nichols | July 20th, 2011 9:19am | filed under Bad critters, Bring it!, Celebrity Diners, Cult Cuisine, Food Fight!, Food Writing, Foodie People, Hippie revolutions, Hot Links!, I Went to College for This?, Nutjobs, Overprivileged chimps, questionable judgment, Rants, Really?, Reviews, Slow News Day, Travel, Yum is Dumb | 36 Comments »

I know very little about Yelp. I see it when I am searching for restaurants but I have never stop to read the reviews. Anywhoo, several people  emailed me this week with complaints and concerns about Yelp. One loyal Disher sends this post found on Cavilli Pizza’s Facebook page. (Cavilli, that will be $15 for the link.)

Fans, just wanted to let you know that YELP has been removing our 5 star reviews for our McKinney location, we have talked to them and they have told us we can’t do anything about it. YELP has been unfair and removed 24 reviews all of which were 4 and 5 stars. But they keep calling us to advertise, and told us it would get better if we advertised. It’s all about making money, what a shame they used to be a great site.

Ouch! Maybe their cyber technicians can detect comments left by the same person. I don’t know. However, this morning comes a note from another just-as-loyal Disher.

I think you’d better take a seat and get ready for this rumble. Oh, and if you know Jack Perkins of Maple & Motor, you might want to text him a link. Okay? Let’s go.

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SideDish Word Ban: YUM!

posted by Nancy Nichols | July 15th, 2011 1:14pm | filed under Food Crime, Food Writing, I Hate it When That Happens, Mistakes I made, Mixology is fancy for bartender, Politics of Food, PR People, questionable judgment, Rants, Silly Reasons to Celebrate, Special Offers, Stupid terms for food, Yum is Dumb | 9 Comments »

Beginning today, July 15, 2011, I am banning the use of the word YUM from any post on SideDish. You can YUM away all you want in the comments, but I will do my best to keep it from appearing in an official report. I do my best to stay away from “foodie,” but have yet to find the perfect replacement. YUM, however, has many. HOWEVER, I reserve the right to use “yummers” or “yum” when  I am being sarcastic or quoting a person.

If you spot the word YUM in a post after today, you will win a prize. Carry on.

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